Attractions of Dnipro

The Aerospace Museum in Dnipro was created on the basis of the Oleksandr Makarov National Aerospace Educational Center of Youth.

The center is named after the Ukrainian rocket engineer, who in 1961-1986 headed the Southern Machine-Building Plant ("Pivdenmash") – a leading Ukrainian enterprise in the production of rocket and space equipment.

The exhibition in the main hall is dedicated to famous rocket builders and the space technology they created. Samples and models of space vehicles, in particular, orbital stations, are presented. On the open-air exhibition area, samples of military equipment are presented: intercontinental ballistic missiles (including the legendary Satana R-36M), the S-200 anti-aircraft missile complex, a model of the German V-2 missile, etc.

Free viewing of the exposition is available on Tuesdays. To organize group excursions, you need to issue an application letter.

Dmytro Yavornytskyi Avenue is the main street of Dnipro and one of the oldest thoroughfares in the city.

It began to take shape simultaneously with the founding of Katerynoslav at the end of the 18th century. From 1834 to 1923, it was called Katerynynskyi Avenue, until 2016 - Karl Marks Avenue. Today it bears the name of the outstanding Ukrainian historian Dmytro Yavornytskyi, who lived and worked in Katerynoslav for a long time.

The avenue is lined with houses of various styles from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Governor's House (1840-1850), "Khrinnykov's House" (1910-1913, now the grand hotel "Ukraine"), the post office building, etc. have been preserved. A pedestrian zone - Kelnskyi Boulevard, nicknamed "New Arbat" - has been organized in the area of the central square of Heroiv Maidanu.

Nearby on the boulevard is a vernissage, where you can buy paintings by local artists and handicrafts, including Petrykivsky painting.

The Dnipro Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet is a modern musical theater with a wide range of genres, stage forms and means.

Created in 1931 as the Dnipropetrovsk Workers' Opera Theater, in 1941 it was evacuated to Krasnoyarsk, where it merged with the Odesa troupe. After the Second World War, it officially ceased operations.

Reborn in 1974. The performance "Bohdan Khmelnytsky" of the Dnipro Opera and Ballet Theater was awarded the Taras Shevchenko National Award.

The Dnipro City Art Museum was opened in 1914 on the initiative of members of the art commission of the Katerynoslav Scientific Society.

Initially, the exhibition was housed in the Potomkin Palace (now the Palace of Students of DNU), then in the Khrennikov building (now the Ukraine Hotel).

During Soviet times, the collection was replenished with works by domestic and Western European masters from the collection of Dmytro Yavornytskyi, as well as from the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) and the Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg). In 1936, the Dnipro Art Museum received a gift from the painter Isaac Brodsky over 300 works, which are still the basis of the exposition.

To date, the museum's collection includes 8.5 thousand works of painting, sculpture, graphics and objects of decorative and applied art of the 16th-21st centuries. The permanent exhibition includes works by Volodymyr Borovykovsky, Ivan Shyshkin, Isaac Levitan, Kostyantyn Korovin, Valentyn Syerov, Illya Repin, Mykola Pymonenko, Oleksandr Murashko and others. The pearl of the collection is considered to be the works of the Ekaterinoslav symbolist artist Mykhaylo Sapozhnikov.

A special place in the museum collection is occupied by the works of famous masters of Petrykivka decorative painting.

Until 2021, the Dnipro Art Museum had regional status, now it is a communal institution of the Dnipro City Council.

Children's Railway in Dnipro (Mala Prydniprovska) is a narrow-gauge railway in the park named after Lazar Hloba.

Introduces children to railway specialties. Opened in 1936, the Dnipro Children's Railway became the first children's railway in Ukraine and the second in the USSR. It was designed by schoolchildren from Dnipro, project documentation was prepared by students of the Dnipro Institute of Transport Engineers, construction was carried out by the method of Komsomol workers, the first locomotive was built independently by Komsomol members of the locomotive repair plant.

The total length of the road is 2 kilometers (ring road). One stop. There are three artificial structures - two tunnels and a crossing. Currently, the rolling stock consists of TU2-134 and TU2-172 diesel locomotives, as well as several PAFAWAG passenger cars.

The mound of Dovha Mohyla is located on the eastern edge of the Dnipro River, near the village of Chapli.

It is considered the highest point of the left bank of the Dnipro on the outskirts of this city. The height above sea level is 170 meters. There is a geodetic triangulation mark on the mound.

From this place there are wonderful views of the Dnipro.

The 50-meter long "Family bench" in Dnipro is the longest bench in Ukraine.

Installed in 2011 on the Dnipro embankment near the Festival pier. The one-piece bench is made of metal and pine beams, decorated with 7 installations that reflect the family's life path and eternal family values.

Located in a free Wi-Fi zone.

The Museum of the History of the Dnipro Metro was founded in 1996, shortly after the opening of the first metro line in the city of Dnipro. The museum is located in one of the premises of the administration building of the Dnipro metro.

The exhibition opens with a panoramic photo of the Metalurgiv metro station with a diagram of the entire line and its prospective sections. The exhibition presents documents and photos illustrating the history of the construction of the facility and the current day-to-day operation of the subway. You can see samples of rocks through which the subway builders drove, samples of building structures and technological equipment, symbolic keys from each station of the first line and from the entire subway, a sample of a typical station lamp.

Excursions to the Museum of the History of the Dnipro Metro are available only for organized groups upon prior agreement with the administration.

Museum of Dnipropetrovsk Region Financial System History was opened in 2002 at the Main Financial Department of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Administration.

The history of the financial system of the region is presented in the museum since 1787, when the then Katerynoslav was founded. Today, the museum's collections include more than 1,700 exhibits. Among them are the originals of currency signs, calculators and arithmetic meters, ancient accounting equipment, samples of financial documents. In particular, the decree of Empress Catherine II on the creation of treasury chambers is presented, as well as the metal plates that were hung on the houses given as collateral.

The central element of the exposition is a reconstruction of the workplace of a financier in the middle of the 20th century with a wax figure of officeman.

The Museum of History of Local Self-Government of the Dnipropetrovsk Region was opened in 2008 as a branch of the Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum named after Dmytro Yavornytskyi.

The museum is located on the second floor of the building of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, which was built in 1905 for the Katerynoslav Commercial School and rebuilt in 1935 to meet the needs of the local self-government body.

The exhibition with an area of 200 square meters reflects the history of the development of local self-government institutions in the Dnipropetrovsk region from the Middle Ages to the present day.

The museum has more than 600 exhibits, including personal belongings of officials of different times, interior items and office equipment, stationery, historical documents and photos, gifts of village councils from various regions of the region. Portraits of many leaders of the city of Dnipro (former Katerynoslav, Dnipropetrovsk) and Dnipropetrovsk region (former Katerynoslav province) are presented.

The Museum of the History of Pilots of the Dnipro Rapids is located in the Lots-Kamyanka Culture House on the southern edge of the Dnipro, in the village of Lotsmanska Kamyanka, where the Dnipro pilots, descendants of the Zaporozhzhian Cossacks, lived long ago.

Before the construction of DniproGES, pilots guided ships through rapids on the Dnipro. The Museum of the History of Pilots and the Pilot Craft was created on the basis of the private collection of the last Dnipro pilot Hryhoriy Omelchenko.

About 200 exhibits are housed in a small room of the House of Culture: anchors, oars, pilot's clothes, embroidered towels and shirts, chests, jugs, folk paintings and dozens of photographs.

The Holy Exaltation Church on Diyivka is one of the oldest in the Dnipro.

Founded in 1803. It was built in a classical style using the traditions of Ukrainian architecture.

During Soviet times, the Church of the Exaltation of the Cross was closed, and a club was located there.

Today, the church is located among the high-rise buildings of the Pokrovskyi housing estate. Recently, the temple was thoroughly restored and opened for visitors.

Kelnskyi Boulevard is a new pedestrian zone in the center of Dnipro. It is also called "New Arbat".

A cobbled boulevard is decorated with an alley of fountains. Shopping centers, cafes and restaurants are located here. The lights of shop windows and "Arbat" lanterns in the evening give Kelnskyi Boulevard a European charm.

One night, anonymous people secretly installed a bronze sculpture of a sitting man on the boulevard, which they called a "monument to an unknown oligarch" (an extravagant gift to one of the wealthy townspeople, Hennadiy Akselrod).

Now it is one of the favorite places for walks and recreation of the townspeople.

The main center of literary life of Dnipropetrovsk region is the Literary Prydniprovya Museum, the department of the Dnipropetrovsk National Historical Museum after Dmytro Yavornytsky.

It was opened in 1983 in the historic "Inzov House", built in the early XIX century to house the Office of Guardianship of Novorossiysk foreign settlers. For some time it was headed by Lieutenant General Ivan Inzov, who in 1820 was repeatedly visited by the Russian poet Oleksandr Pushkin. The house is also associated with the activities of the literary and artistic society Mykola Hohol, many other cultural and public figures.

The museum's collections include manuscripts of works of art, books, documents, photographs, and personal belongings of prominent writers, folklorists, and theater figures of the 18th and 20th centuries that were related to the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Part of the exhibition is located on the ground floor of the house. The second floor of the "Inzov House", where the renovation has not been completed, has become a museum laboratory. Every year about 30 art exhibitions and up to 70 scientific and educational events are held here.

The public information and exhibition center Mediaprostir in Dnipro operates on the basis of the former Center for Innovative Technologies "Rocket Park", located in the park next to the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council.

The museum-exhibition complex with life-size models of three rockets produced by the "Pivdenmash" plant was created in 2013. One of the first Soviet ballistic missiles 8K11 (R-11), the first missile with a mobile launch developed by KB "Pivdenne" 8K99 (RT-20P) and the three-stage launch vehicle "Zyklon-3" are presented at the exhibition site.

This is one of the main locations of the "Dnipro Space" tourist route. The exhibition hall of the complex is currently used as a venue for public events and presentations.